Background: There is a severe global shortage of midwives, and the situation worsens when qualified professionals leave their jobs because of inadequate working conditions. Hospitals have increasing difficulties in filling vacancies for midwives. In the case of Germany, midwives tend to give up birth assistance after an average of seven years working in delivery rooms, which are usually led by physicians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mothers in Germany are entitled to midwifery care; however, they face a lack of skilled professionals. While the reliability of the access to midwifery is of great public interest, we know little about clients' preferences.
Objectives: We conduct a discrete choice experiment to study preferences and willingness to accept copayment for the entire scope of midwifery care (pregnancy, delivery, and postnatal).
Objectives: The objective of this paper is to study under which circumstances wearable and health app users would accept a compensation payment, namely a digital dividend, to share their self-tracked health data.
Methods: We conducted a discrete choice experiment alternative, a separated adaptive dual response. We chose this approach to reduce extreme response behavior, considering the emotionally-charged topic of health data sales, and to measure willingness to accept.